Press Releases

By Dr Louise Irvine, Secretary to the National Health Action Party The last 48 hours have been a national humiliation. Yet – and this is the truly perverse part of it all – none of this has been a surprise. We all knew that the Prime Minister’s deal wasn’t going to get through parliament on a second attempt and we …

By Dr Helen Salisbury, Spokesperson for the National Health Action Party and GP. *This is a cross post originally featured in the British Medical Journal We are lucky enough in our city [Oxford] to have a world class cancer treatment centre. But word is out that the contract for doing combined positron emission tomography and computed tomography scans for the region …

The Churchill Hospital in Oxfordshire is an international leader for the treatment and diagnosis of cancer. It uses 3D PET-CT scans to look for cancer and to assess whether treatments are working. Yet NHS England has just given the go ahead for the scanners to be relocated to a private clinic run by InHealth – a private company – to …

It has recently been reported by the Times that NHS England has decided to throw its weight behind a government decision to scrap the 4-hour target for A&E. The target – which was brought in under New Labour – requires A&E departments to treat or transfer 98% of A&E patients within four hours of their being admitted to causality. However, …

The time for brinkmanship and running down the clock is over writes Dr Louise Irvine, Secretary to the National Health Action Party, in her argument for a People’s Vote The Prime Minister’s decision to delay putting her Withdrawal Agreement to another meaningful vote - pushing the date back to the 12th of March and therefore only 17 days away from …

Today NHS England has announced its decision to grant GP at Hand permission to expand its services to Birmingham. The app – which is strongly supported by Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who is a customer of the app – boasts of being able to provide users with either same day or next day face-to-face appointments with a GP across several …

Long time activist, staunch advocate of the NHS and award winning comedian Mark Thomas is touring the UK and making the case for what we need to do to save the NHS. The show, which is called 'Check UP: Our NHS@70', is based upon Mark's experience of spending a month in residency at the Imperial Group of Hospitals based in …

This is a cross post. This article was originally featured in Left Foot Forward Health Secretary Matt Hancock is currently promoting a privately-owned app which is undermining general practice within the NHS. The app, GP at Hand, boasts of allowing users to obtain same day, or next day, face-to-face appointments with GPs. It also claims users can have a video consultation with a GP within …

The Withdrawal Agreement hashed out between Theresa May and the European Union will be roundly defeated at tonight’s vote. The National Health Action Party cannot predict what will happen next – no one can. However, we have made our position on Brexit clear. We believe the United Kingdom should remain in the European Union and seek to reform it. The …

Today the government will unveil its long-term plan for the future funding of the NHS. The 10-year plan will see a real-term increase in funding of 3.5% going toward frontline services. A third of the funding increase – which will amount to an annual budgetary increase of £20bn up to the year 2023 – will be dedicated to increased funds …

Witnessing the transformation of the #NHS to deal with #COVID19 has been remarkable & uplifting. Great credit must go to both clinical & non-clinical managers. If our political leaders had an ounce of this talent, ability & foresight, many more lives would have been saved

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